Investigators with the York Regional Police Major Fraud Unit, in partnership with the Canada Border Services Agency and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, have arrested 14 suspects and laid 145 charges following a lengthy investigation into a multi-million dollar fraud ring. In July 2011, members of the York Regional Police Major Fraud Unit began an investigation into an organized group responsible for defrauding financial institutions, corporations, government agencies and insurance companies by using legitimate government identification obtained with forged foreign passports. An investigation was launched with the goal of identifying and arresting suspects responsible for creating, distributing and selling the passports. The three-month investigation identified numerous suspects who had used the passports to defraud banks by opening accounts under false names, staging motor vehicle collisions to defraud the insurance industry and leasing vehicles under aliases in order to defraud leasing companies. The initiative concluded with the arrest of Vladimir LOGINOV. The suspect is allegedly responsible for forging foreign passports, which were used in frauds totalling more than $10-million over the past 10 years in the Greater Toronto Area. During the course of the initiative, a total of five search warrants were executed. While executing a warrant in the Town of Aurora, investigators uncovered a fully-functional document forgery laboratory believed to be operated by Mr ...